Penn State's homegrown creationists

Penn State now has at least two active creationist mechanical engineering faculty members Jeremy Walter and John Cimbala.

The Daily Item, a Pennsylvania rural paper, reports that Walter who directs part of Penn State's Applied Research Lab is indeed a creationist who is exhorting local men to follow Jesus and presumably "disagree with Stephen Hawking and his big bang theory and how the earth came to exist." In case you wonder, he works for Answers In Genesis and has contributed to In Six Days and On The Seventh Day.

My favorite part is this:

Walter, who was raised with a religious background, started questioning evolution as a graduate student in the late 1970s while reading papers about thermodynamics written by creationist scientists.

Great. A creationist engineer who thinks that we live in a closed system? Really? Has he looked into the sky and seen the sun lately?